These Open Source Projects from Comcast Engineers Were Accepted to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

By Paige Gross, Technical.ly Philly on April 12, 2021

A handful of Comcast engineers are behind two open-source projects that were recently accepted as sandbox, or early-stage, projects by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Projects Kuberhealthy and Trickster are both about three years old, said Nithya Ruff, head of Comcast’s Open Source Office, and were created as solutions to make an internal process work more smoothly. Projects accepted into the CNCF are ones that reach a high level of technical maturity, global engagement and collaboration, per the org.

Trickster was developed by James Ranson, a former senior principal cloud architect at Comcast, to help make Prometheus dashboards run smoother and faster; Prometheus is the open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally developed by SoundCloud. It was written in Go, and is a reverse proxy cache for the Prometheus HTTP APIv1 that accelerates dashboard rendering times for any series queried from Prometheus.

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